arrangement-one

Updated: June 28, 2025

This grim chief had thought it a degradation to permit his sister to become the wife of a pale-face of the Yengeese at all, and had only given a reluctant consent to the arrangement-one by no means unusual among the Indians, however at the earnest solicitations of the bereaved widow; and it goaded him to the quick to find his condescension slighted, the honor he had with so much regret been persuaded to accord, condemned.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Deerslayer